ONS have published alcohol-specific deaths data for 2022 for England & Wales today, so we now have data for the whole of the UK. The picture is pretty grim, with deaths surpassing 10,000 for the first time on record - up 32.8% since 2019.

ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

Why Findings on Alcohol and Health Are So Confusing: Who is considered an abstainer matters (by Quinn Kennedy, PhD)
James Clay, PhD Dal Community Health & Epidemiology CISUR UoP Dept of Psychology Dal Community Health & Epidemiology CCSA Uvic PHSP
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/aging-…

Why do only some cohort studies find health benefits from low volume alcohol use? A systematic review and meta-analysis ... (just accepted in @JSADjournal)
James Clay, PhD Dal Community Health & Epidemiology CISUR UoP Dept of Psychology Dal Community Health & Epidemiology CCSA Uvic PHSP
jsad.com/doi/abs/10.152…

🍷Does moderate drinking protect the heart?🫀

On 17 April we will be co-hosting a public lecture by Prof Tim Stockwell on the latest evidence of alcohol's effects on the cardiovascular system - with RCPEdin & SHAAP.

Sign up online or in-person: eventbrite.co.uk/e/health-benef…

How Red Wine Lost Its Health Halo: For a glorious decade or two, the drink was lauded as good for the heart. What happened? (by Alice Callahan)
James Clay, PhD CISUR Dal Community Health & Epidemiology UoP Dept of Psychology Timnaimi Daniel Hungerford Ali H. Mokdad
nytimes.com/2024/02/17/wel…

Had a great time at Issues of Substance. Lots of friendly people with interesting perspectives. I look forward to attending the next one

Excited to present 'Policy-Level Interventions for Harm Reduction' at #Portsmouth Recovery Festival, organized by Portsmouth Film Soc. Southsea Cinema & Arts Centre on Nov 10 at 5pm (UK time) via Zoom.

📧 DM/email for the Zoom link.
#HarmReduction #AcademicTwitter

Some more exciting news... I am going to be joining Dal Community Health & Epidemiology and CISUR as a Postdoc in October 🇨🇦

I successfully defended my PhD today and I am officially #phdone 🎉.

Thanks to my supervisors, Dr Lorenzo Stafford & Dr Matt Parker (Dr Matt Parker), and examiners, Dr Jeff Dalley & Dr Paul Morris

Come and work with us! Part-time research assistant post, based in Sheffield. Please RT jobs.ac.uk/job/DCL823/res…

Just published in Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs:

'Associations Between COVID-19 Alcohol Policy Restrictions and Alcohol Sales in British Columbia: Variation by Area-Based Deprivation Level'.

dx.doi.org/10.15288/jsad.…

Submitted my PhD thesis today. Now what?

The first paper from my PhD (and my first, first-author paper) is out now in Journal of Open Psychology Data!

It describes the SMARVUS dataset, collected via an international, multi-lab, survey of stats/maths anxieties & associated variables in 12,570 students. #StatsEd

openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.53…